cve-2021-20317
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-27 10:34
Modified
2024-08-03 17:37
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A corrupted timer tree caused the task wakeup to be missing in the timerqueue_add function in lib/timerqueue.c. This flaw allows a local attacker with special user privileges to cause a denial of service, slowing and eventually stopping the system while running OSP.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a kernel Version: Kernel 5.3 rc1
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